Hubble released a set of celestial objects that were all the rage in the 1800's, thanks to astronomer Charles Messier In a nod to the global amateur astronomy community, as well as to any space enthusiast who enjoys the beauty of the cosmos, the Hubble Space Telescope mission is releasing its version of the popular Messier catalog, featuring some of Hubble’s best images of these celestial objects that were once noted for looking like comets but turned out not to be. This release coincides with t

Hubble just released 12 more images of galaxies and star clusters that you can see in the night sky this month! They’re new additions to Hubble’s Messier catalog, which features Hubble images of celestial objects noted by the French comet-hunter Charles Messier who thought these fuzzy objects looked like comets. In March, skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere can spot all 110 objects in Messier’s catalog in a single night, in a challenge known as the Messier Marathon. http://go.nasa.gov/2piuDEx